CMS: "premature" minor GCs w/ ParNew

[Thomas Schatzl]

Hi,

On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 09:58 -0700, Srinivas Ramakrishna wrote:
> Does it happen with a specific application?
> 
> You might want to print the gc cause and see. It could be related to
> allocating very large objects (arrays). +PrintGCDetails and
> +PrintHeapAtGC would provide additional data (but probably not the
> cause, although that may have changed in more recent builds (JDK
> 8/hs25+? have lost track..)

You can use -XX:+UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions -XX:G1LogLevel=finest to get
most detail. PrintGCDetail by maps to G1LogLevel=finer or so (one level
coarser) iirc.

Thomas